Simpsons Tapped Out

I admit it I'm addicted to the Simpsons Tapped Out. I think its great been playing it for awhile and my Springfield is getting quite large and the Characters I have are increasing to the point I'm starting to have to stagger their finish times.

Loving the Wacking Day event too. Anyway, I want more donuts and snakes so if anyone wants to add me as a friend my Origin ID: Giarc1982

@caligari Basically you start off with Homer, Lisa and Apu and you tell them to do stuff for a set amount of time and it earns XP and money.

XP levels you up and unlocks Quest related buildings and character(who appear when you build certain buildings)
Money is used to build stuff like buildings
Buildings also give XP and Money every so long.
Most Buildings take 24Hours real time to build.

The shorter the time for a task the more efficient they are in rewards for example Lisa can read a book for 45Seconds for 1 XP and about 3$ or go to the Kwik-E-Mart for 60Min for 20XP and ~60$, but you'll be tapping like mad if you chose the shorter option

All the above is free. And I haven't paid anything yet and I've been doing it for about a month now.

There is a premium currency of Donuts which you get for a few for leveling up but not that many

With Donuts you can:
Buy premium buildings like Barney's Bowl-a-rama which unlocks Barney
Speed up things that will take time
Buy cash to purchase things faster

Currently there is a wacking day event that lets you wack snakes earning bonus's, there are premium items that spawn more snakes, also you get eggs to leave in your friends Springfields

caligari wrote:
Isn't it one of those horrible little 'pay for instant upgrades' games?

This one is particularly evil though. The currency for premium items is donuts and there is precious little way to earn them outside of paying for them. The cost for donuts, and to buy premium items (some of which get tied to missions, some of which give you main characters), is astronomical… way beyond a full price retail game.

The game itself is a waiting game, where the only gameplay discernible is how to earn a lot of money in as little time as possible. Decorations give cash multipliers, so buy them. You set off your people earning money, basically schedule this around your time available. If you check your phone hourly, then put everything on hour timers, and then put it on 12 hours or so overnight. You get a bit more money per hour by checking frequently.

Every now and again some bod will turn up with a mission. This will be a waiting based task to either have them do something or for you to build something.

Eventually you realise that the entire place you are building has no consequence on the actual game. It isn’t really a management sim in that respect where what you build, where you build it has significant impacts on the gameplay or events. All you have is the wait. Always the wait. Nothing else. Jurrasic Park is actually a little bit more entertaining, and you are able to get the premium currency for “free”.

This is easily the worst "game" I've ever had the misfortune to try.
Luckily the lobotomy called "Tiny Tower" had taught me what to look for so I only wasted half a day (about 15minutes game play) o this shit.

I'm playing this, but I absolutely refuse to buy any content with real money, I did the same with ea's theme park too, in fact it's my goal with these games to get as much as I can for free and say a big 'fuck you' to ea!

When I play the game I just don't see that. I don't see the need, I don't see the prompting from the game. Yes you can spend money on Donuts if you feel you have to, but you don't have to and it is not put in front of your face. There really are more insidious f2p games than this one. The voice acting and writing is funny, but like many appointment gaming designs it is a bit boring long term. Play it for free for a while then abandon it and move on. It's just a time waster that's all. Nothing to get upset about if you ask me.

djronz. wrote:
I'm playing this, but I absolutely refuse to buy any content with real money, I did the same with ea's theme park too, in fact it's my goal with these games to get as much as I can for free and say a big 'fuck you' to ea!